Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

[Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk>]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 06:11:50AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I need to identify file system on all partitions of my hard drive 
> whether mounted or not.
>    parted /dev/sda print | grep ext | grep -v exte
> reports the desired information [partitions formatted ext?] in a 
> convenient format.
> *HOWEVER* parted requires root privileges. That is not acceptable.
> Suggestions?

parted probably wants root privileges because it is, by nature a 
PARTition EDitor.

Try, instead, "lsblk" (in package util-linux), which will LiSt BLocK 
devices. I'm not immediately sure how to get it to show ONLY partitions, 
but the following seems to work:

$ lsblk -l|awk 'NR==1||/part/'

(or just "|grep part" if you don't care about seeing the header :)


> TIA

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